By mid-November, it was already clear to most if not all of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ players that any postseason hopes were dead and the franchise had shifted toward trying to secure a high draft pick.

At the time, the top three players in college were all considered to be from Duke, and multiple Cavs who shall remain nameless said Cameron Reddish, not Zion Williamson or R.J. Barrett, might be the best pro of the three.

Fast forward to today. The Cavs’ talent evaluators are among the lottery teams taking a look at Reddish, but they’re doing so from the No. 5 spot in the draft. There was a time where Reddish, now 19, was projected to be the top player in the 2019 class. Now, he could fall as low as 10th.

And yet he is the kind of pro prospect who could skyrocket up draft boards, get back to No. 4 or even, albeit a long shot, to No. 3, through his private workouts, because of his size (6-foot-8, 220 pounds) and the skills that used to make college and...